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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2276186" data-attributes="member: 14159">Recommend:Shadows of the Empire (an enjoyable read which details the events between the end of ESB and the beginning of RotJ, most notable for the very good depiction of Vader.)Thrawn Trilogy (Seen by many as the quintessential Star Wars novels.  Cool villains, exotic places, neato space battles, good depictions of the main characters everybody knows.  These are the novels that really started the Expanded Universe as we know it now.)Jedi Academy Trilogy (If you didn't like Dark Empire, be warned that it takes place right after and deals with the aftermath of those events, but it is very cool to finally see Luke act as a Jedi Master and be able to actually teach others.)Not Recommend:The Crystal Star (Just didn't feel like Star Wars, more like a cheesy bad pulp sci-fi novel shoehorned into the Star Wars universe)Black Fleet Crisis (It just lacked a certain spark, I just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it.)Truce at Bakura (while the first few chapters are notable for depicting the events immediately after Return of the Jedi, and both sides coming to terms with what just happened, weird reptilian aliens who suck the lifeforce out of people and use it to power their ships invading from beyond known space just didn't feel like Star Wars.)</blockquote>